In Pursuit of Status
ISBN: 9781684173112
Platform/Publisher: BRILL / Harvard University Asia Center
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Languages and Linguistics.; Historical and Comparative Linguistics & Linguistic Typology.; Pragmatics & Discourse Analysis.;

In this ethnography of the everyday life of contemporary Korea, Denise Lett argues that South Korea's contemporary urban middle class not only exhibits upper-class characteristics but also that this reflects a culturally inherited disposition of Koreans to seek high status. Lett shows that Koreans have adapted traditional ways of asserting high status to modern life, and analyzes strategies for claiming high status in terms of occupation, family, lifestyle, education, and marriage.


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